03904nam 2200637 a 450 991095577900332120240416105354.00-8132-2047-50-8132-0745-2(CKB)2670000000310054(EBL)3135014(SSID)ssj0000851565(PQKBManifestationID)11499817(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000851565(PQKBWorkID)10848969(PQKB)10932193(OCoLC)815970284(MdBmJHUP)muse24104(Au-PeEL)EBL3135014(CaPaEBR)ebr10642480(OCoLC)922996776(MiAaPQ)EBC3135014(EXLCZ)99267000000031005419901128h19911991 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMoral absolutes tradition, revision, and truth /John Finnis1st ed.Washington, D.C. :Catholic University of America Press,1991.©19911 online resource (vi, 113 pages)The Michael J. McGivney lectures of the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family ;1988Description based upon print version of record.0-8132-0744-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.""Contents ""; ""Foreword ""; ""I. Foundations ""; ""1. Exceptionless moral norms: few but strategic""; ""2. Witnessed to by faith""; ""3. Part of the theology of human fulfillment""; ""4. Rejected when human replaces divine providence""; ""5. No narrowing of horizons""; ""6. Choice, reflexivity, and proportionalism""; ""7. Protecting changeless aspects of human fulfillment""; ""8. Negative norms but positive and revelatory""; ""9. Rejection: some motivations and implications""; ""II. Clarifications""; ""1. Intrinsece mala: acts always wrong, but not by definition """"2. Specified neither evaluatively nor physically / behaviorally""""3. Opposed to reason and integral human fulfillment""; ""4. Worse than suffering wrong""; ""5. Proportionalist justifications: incoherent with rationally motivated free choice""; ""6. The central case: intentional harm, always unreasonable""; ""7. Deadly defense and death penalty: not necessarily proportionalist""; ""III. Christian Witness""; ""1. Free choice: a morally decisive reality ""; ""2. Evil: not to be chosen that good may come ""; ""3. Actions: morally specified by their objects (intentions)""""4. Intending human harm: never acceptable for God or man""""5. Counterexamples""; ""6. Responsibility for side effects: other principles and norms""; ""IV. Challenge and Response""; ""1. Contraception and the general denial of absolutes""; ""2. Historical and ecclesiological skirmishes""; ""3. The main action: in philosophical theology""; ""4. Prudence misconceived: the absolutes aesthetically dissolved""; ""5. A summary conclusion""; ""Index""Moral Absolutes sets forth a vigorous but careful critique of much recent work in moral theology. It is illustrated with examples from the most controversial aspects of Christian moral doctrine, and a frank account is given of the roots of the upheaval in Roman Catholic moral theology in and after the 1960s.Michael J. McGivney lectures of the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family ;1988.Christian ethicsCatholic authorsEthical relativismChristian ethicsCatholic authors.Ethical relativism.241/.042Finnis John250551MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910955779003321Moral absolutes4457882UNINA